Insults And Lies Are Failing To Persuade On Syria

Investors.com ^ | September 5, 2013 | Editorial

[jazusamo]

Syrian Crisis: President Obama asks Congress to save him from his own mess on America's stance toward a terrorist state. Has he given one credible reason why the egg should be on members' faces too?

The liberal Think Progress blog's count Thursday found nearly 200 congressmen leaning against Obama's request to approve a strike on Syria, and fewer than 50 leaning in favor.

It called this "a drastic change that has occurred literally overnight." But with the president using the bully pulpit to make the case for this supposed national security priority, how can this be?

The last straw for our self-important elected representatives may have been Obama in Scandinavia talking to Congress, which last we checked meets in Washington.

Standing with the Swedish prime minister, the president on Wednesday lectured U.S. lawmakers that "my credibility is not on the line . .. America and Congress' credibility is on the line."

He also claimed, "the international community's credibility is on the line." Everyone's credibility is in question, it seems, except the leader of the free world, who placed us where we are as regards Syria. He's not passing the buck; he's shoving it down everyone's throat.

"We have to act," he says, "because if we don't ... somebody who is not shamed by resolutions can continue to act with impunity ... and other despots and authoritarian regimes can start looking and saying, 'That's something we can get away with.'"

[musicman]

(I wish I had been the one to think it up and make it!!)

[RKBA Democrat]

Not really. Who watches network news anymore other than a few aging libs?

[opentalk]

FOX news top rated show, O’Reilly called Putin a liar tonight, regarding Kerry, Syria

http://mobile.wnd.com/2010/07/179533/

[jazusamo]

That’s figures that BOR would get on the Obama/Kerry bandwagon, I just can’t stomach that opinionated blowhard anymore.

[tcrlaf]

“Not really. Who watches network news anymore other than a few aging libs?”

Around 20 Million people last night, according to TVNewser

[jonrick46]

The reason that Zer0 did not act on the earlier Bashar al-Assad’s use of gas on the rebels, is because Zer0 now realizes he needs a Wag the Dog event to evade the mounting information about his unlawful presidency. To put this matter in its seriousness, it is possible that Zer0 knows that the rebels themselves caused the latest gas attack to frame Bashar al-Assad and to justify a Wag the Dog.

A real transparent presidency we have here (/sarc).